diff --git a/components/serializer.rst b/components/serializer.rst
index f554ed7cf76..f2c3285a33b 100644
--- a/components/serializer.rst
+++ b/components/serializer.rst
@@ -994,7 +994,7 @@ The ``YamlEncoder`` Context Options
 The ``encode()`` method, like other encoder, uses ``context`` to set
 configuration options for the YamlEncoder an associative array::
 
-    $xmlEncoder->encode($array, 'xml', $context);
+    $yamlEncoder->encode($array, 'yaml', $context);
 
 These are the options available: